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evacide
@evacide@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime: https://www.theverge.com/tech/804052/ring-jamie-siminoff-book-ding-dong-release-date-interview

The Verge

 ‘I was the demolition man’: Ring founder reflects on how he almost destroyed the company

Ding Dong!
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foundseed
@foundseed@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide dude looks like he's being played by Dana Carvey

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fuzzyfuzzyfungus
@fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide Because the only crime in "most normal, average neighborhoods" is the relatively low sophistication, stranger-perpetrated, petty property crime; right?

That's the lie that makes the one about product efficacy pale nearly into irrelevance.

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gunstick
@gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I would love if there would be a gang stealing ring cameras. #irony.

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Nicky🦨✌️
@skoombidoombis@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide these guys want to pretend that they and their product are nothing but an intermediary between a police report and an an insurance company claim.

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PKPs Powerfromspace1
@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide one the same page on Larry E 😉

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enthraxxx
@enthraxxx@h4.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide The title alone had me fuming.
What world we live in where a fascist wet dream can be displayed so blatantly.

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Hot Dog Water Moccasin
@GGMcBG@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide

Betcha if we Rung-up the guts of his home the crime indexes would shiver. These types are always fucking violence in veneers. Dead-eyed.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I understood who he is at “zero out crime.”

Just gonna leave this here:
https://blinksandbuttons.net/how-to-disrupt-ring-camera/

BlinksAndButtons

Disrupting Ring Cameras: A Comprehensive Guide

In a world where home security is paramount, devices like the Ring camera provide peace of mind for homeowners. However, understanding the vulnerabilities and
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I understood who he is at “zero out crime.”

Just gonna leave this here:
https://blinksandbuttons.net/how-to-disrupt-ring-camera/

BlinksAndButtons

Disrupting Ring Cameras: A Comprehensive Guide

In a world where home security is paramount, devices like the Ring camera provide peace of mind for homeowners. However, understanding the vulnerabilities and
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Ox1de
@Ox1de@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I think we should set up a matrix of ring door bells around his house and along his commute routes, see how he likes that shit.

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🌜Galactic Stone🌛
@galacticstone@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide Something needs zeroing out alright... KEKW

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Gabriele Marcosanti :opensuse:
@gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide don't blame the guy for his claims. Blame the army of morons who will follow.

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Bjarne Oldrup
@oldrup@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide Is he suggesting that we should record video, from every home, 24/7, stream it to data centres, where AI, will evaluate all that footage, again, from all the homes, 24/7, and if the AI suspects something criminal (which supposedly is now almost never the case), what, call the police?

To me, that sounds like an extreme energy intensive way to implement Orwellian grade mass surveillance.

I'll pass, thank you very much.

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gravy resurrection
@demon6@metalhead.club replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide What a fucking grifter

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DeadTOm
@deadtom@dice.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide

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Jacen
@thejacenallen@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide proving that crime isnt real outside of some porch delivery thefts in 2025 and beyond

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Stu
@tehstu@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide Some sort of corollary to Betteridge's Law of headlines is needed, for headlines that are very obviously bollocks.

Or maybe editors need to structure all headlines as "Can Ring cameras 'zero out crime' within the next twelve months, as stated by CEO?" so we can just "no".

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john r red-horse
@jrredho@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide

My take on this user: Ignore her posts at your own peril.

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oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide

Yeah well Fuck This Guy and Amazon for their Fascistic ways...

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Peter Bloem
@pbloem@sigmoid.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide "I'm sure after all this dumb shit I did I am now qualified to make huge claims without verifying them in any way, or thinking through the implications.

That's how life works right, first you do a lot of dumb shit, and then after a certain point, you're always right about everything."

Pull quote: "...dumb shit is the best thing for a book. Luckily I did a lot of dumb shit."
Pull quote: "...dumb shit is the best thing for a book. Luckily I did a lot of dumb shit."
Pull quote: "...dumb shit is the best thing for a book. Luckily I did a lot of dumb shit."
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Stephen I Moore
@StephenMoore@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide Why does tech journalism fail to see that "Tech CEO makes monumental claim about product they are selling" as anything other than an advertisement for the product? In all the ways that the press has failed, becoming an useful-idiot-advertising-arm for tech bros is grating. I think because it's so lazy.

"Charming stranger says Snake Oil will cure the ill humors"

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Scott Laird
@laird@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide the first thing that I thought when I saw the headline was "wage theft is the most common form of crime." *Clearly* buying privacy-destroying home doorbells will fix that one right up.

It's all just authoritarian fearmongering against The Other.

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Richard
@m0rpk@mastodon.radio replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide It is hard to get someone to understand a thing when their salary depends on them not understanding it.

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devlin zed
@devlin@z3d.me replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide challenge accepted

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slash
@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I can't wait to see how doorbells on residences will foil bank robberies and drive-by shootings.

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T2R
@T2R@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide It just shows he's an authoritarian police state tech oligarch.

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Zak :1password:
@zak@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide I hope this turns into the new "we'll be having sex with robots in 10 years" meme. Count it down. See everyone next year when crime is solved.

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the elder sea
@eldersea@expressional.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@evacide
Well the title is at least what I'd expect from him as an autobiography

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